Mop-head



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERIC ALLEN, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

MOP-HEAD.

Specicaton of Letters Patent No. 16,137, dated December 2, 1856.

il 1o all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, FREDERIC ALLEN, of Worcester, in the county ofWorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Mop-Heads, which I do hereby declare is fully describedand represented in the following specification and the accompanyingdrawings, of which- Figure l, is a side view, and Fig. 2, an edgeelevation of the said article.

In carrying out or constructing my invention I take a tapering bar A, ofspring steel, and bend it at the middle, and from thence to one end andat such end as shown ata, b, c, in Fig. l. It thus has three bends orflexures the latter or that shown at 0, being so as to form an eye CZ,for the reception of a link e, which has the bar inserted through itpreviously to the formation of the eye. The other end of the bar A, Ibend down so as to form a flat hook f, to hold the link in place whenthe hook or end of the bar A, is extended through it, as shown in dottedlines in Fig. l. The bar A, should be provided with a shank g, forconnecting it with a mop handle B.

In applying` the mop cloth to the aforesaid head it should be placed onit while the link e, is off the hook f. This having been accomplishedthe head is to be compressed on the cloth and the link slipped on t-hehook. By this process the flexure ZJ, of the spring will be not onlyoperated so as to confine the cloth in place, but it will give way inaccordance with the thickness of the cloth and adapt itself to the same.The said flexure thus renders the mop head self adjusting and applicableto receive either a thick or thin cloth. This fixture is not found inthe common bar clamp mop head operated by a screw. In my improved mophead the link is always in one position when the clamp contains a cloth,whatever may be the thickness of the cloth. No setting up of a screw isrequired to x the cloth to the head. Such being done by the selfadapting spring flexure Z), and the link while being bent down towardand conformed to the remainder of the mop head.

My improved mop head though simple in its construction is veryadvantageous in operation.

I do not claim a clamp formed of two bars hinged together at one end ofeach and provided at their opposite ends with a screw for forcing one ofthem toward the other, but

Vhat I do claim is- IIy improved spring clamp mop head as made of a barof spring steel as stated bentand formed with an eye and a hook at itsopposite ends as explained and having a link applied thereto so as tooperate therewith as specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature this day of August1856.

Vitnesses DANIEL A. HAWKINS, J r., EDWARD H. BieELow.

